Robert Weltsch Collection 1770-1997

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Robert Weltsch Collection, 1770-1997

Robert Weltsch Collection 1770-1997

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Correspondence with family members, including letters from the front in WorldWar I and from later years, and with other individuals, including: Solomon Adler-Rudel, Alexander Altmann, Hannah Arendt, Chaim Arlosoroff, LeoBaeck, David Baumgardt, Hugo Bergmann, Isaiah Berlin, Siegfried Bernfeld, Kurt Blumenfeld, Ilse Blumenthal-Weiss, Julie Braun-Vogelstein, HermannBroch, Max Brod, Martin Buber, Albert Einstein, Amos Elon, Joseph Cardinal Frings, Manfred George, Nahum Glatzer, Nahum Goldmann, Georg Halpern,Ernst Hamburger, Hugo Hermann, Erich von Kahler, Siegmund Kaznelson, Hans Kohn, Max Kreutzberger, Gustav Krojanker, Georg Landauer, GustavLandauer, Miriam Beer-Hofmann Lens, Hans Liebeschuetz, Gerda Luft, Judah Magnes, Heinrich Margulies, Siegfried Moses, Koppel Pinson, Joachim Prinz,Eva Reichmann, Felix Rosenblueth (later Pinchas Rosen), Gustav Schocken, Salman Schocken, Gershom Scholem, Werner David Senator, Ernst Simon,Christoph Stoelzl, Hans Tramer, Johannes Urzidil, Max Warburg, Chaim Weizmann, Felix Weltsch, and Arnold Zweig. Correspondence of Weltsch as editor of and ; correspondence on Zionist affairs, in particular on the 1929 Arab uprising in Palestine and its repercussions. Personal papers of Robert Weltsch and other family members, including his diaries and notebooks from various periods, and of his father,Theodor Weltsch, from the 1870s; manuscripts and other material on Jewish life in Prague. Speeches, reports, essays, and journalistic dispatches by Weltsch on Zionism, Jewish-Arab and Jewish-German relations, displaced persons inpost-World War II Europe, the Nuremberg war crimes trials, and the founding of the State of Israel; clippings of articles by Weltsch. Clippings and manuscripts by others on Zionism and Jewish affairs, including a report by Hans Kohn on Zionist activities among former POWs inSiberia in 1919, and a 1915 speech by Moshe Smilansky. Records of the Komitee fuer den Osten concerning the situation of East European Jewry at the end of World War I, including memoranda by MaxBodenheimer and Franz Oppenheimer; records of the Verband Juedischer Studentenvereine in Deutschland from the 1920s and of the Jewish studentfraternity Bar Kochba, Prague, including reports, minutes, membership lists, and correspondence of its Israeli alumni association; correspondenceand minutes of Brith Shalom, an organization which favored Arab-Jewish cooperation and a bi-national state, and Ha-Poel Ha-Zair, a Zionist laborparty; correspondence of the Zionistische Vereinigung fuer Deutschland and of Aliyah Hadasha, a German-Jewish party in the Yishuv. Papers of Solomon Adler-Rudel, including records of the Arbeiterfuersorgeamt der juedischen Organisationen Deutschlands and of Poalei Zion,relating to East European Jewish workers in Germany, their working and living conditions and political activities; correspondence and othermaterial on the Evian Conference and on emigration from Nazi Germany in the 1930s and from German-occupied Europe during World War II, includingreports of the Movement for the Care of Children from Germany; research notes and manuscripts by Adler Rudel for his biography of Baron Maurice deHirsch. Manuscript: "Max Brod and his Age". 1969; English, 37 p.; typed, xeroxed. Lecture on the development of Jewish consciousness in a western,educated, assimilated man. Addenda: Letter from Weltsch (1980) The following individuals are mentioned in this collection: Alpert, Carl; Arlosoroff, Gerda; Bodenheimer, Max; Hirsch, Maurice de; Kafka,Franz; Oppenheimer, Franz; Smilansky, Moshe; Tietz, Ludwig; Weltsch, Theodor; Wittkower, Rudolf Juedische Rundschau JuedischeWelt-Rundschau

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Leo Baeck Institute.